MILESTONES
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JUL 94 (-1/-4m)	Max born (1 lb)
AUG 94 (0/-3m)	Breathing (for a short stretch) without the ventilator
		Moved to an isolette
SEP 94 (1/-2m)	First clothes, first breastmilk, first poop
		First time we got to hold him (2 lb)
		Smiling reflexively, first head turn, first breastfeeding
		Dad's first day away, Max's first bath
OCT 94 (2/-1m)	First bottle, Dad's first burping
		Max's due date, Max comes home (4 lb)
NOV 94 (3/0m)	First cold (5 lb), started on formula
		First cooing
DEC 94 (4/1m)	Sleeping all night in his crib, first solid food
		Enjoys peek-a-boo, smiles regularly
JAN 95 (5/2m)	Holds head up (10 lb)
FEB 95 (6/3m)	Turns head, laughs, holds bottle
MAR 95 (7/4m)	Stands using furniture, sitting
APR 95 (8/5m)	Roll back to front
MAY 95 (9/6m)	Purposefully kicked a button to hear music (15 lb)
		First adult food (tomato, lemon)
		Roll front to back
JUN 95 (10/7m)	Walks with help, feeds self, crawling, cruising
		Push to sitting from crawling, babbling
JUL 95 (11/8m)	Climbing stairs, first fast food
AUG 95 (12/9m)	First tooth, first step, climbs off couch, Dada nonspecific,
		says banana.
SEP 95 (13/10m)	Second tooth, walking with one hand held, Momma nonspecific
NOV 95 (15/12m)	Turns pages
DEC 95 (16/13m)	Walking, stand up from floor
JAN 96 (17/14m)	Makes lots of animal noises and points to body parts
		Sits in a small chair, says "mama" and "dada"
FEB 96 (18/15m)	Walking backwards, standing on things
		shakes head yes and no, starting to eat with fork
MAR 96 (19/16m)	Echos up to four syllables, sometimes five
APR 96 (20/17m)	First 3 syllable word (BA ba-ba=strawberry), runs
MAY 96 (21/18m)	Vocab nearly 200 words, some evidence of compositional
		language understanding ("wipe daddy's leg"), plays
		rhyming game with names  
JUN 96 (22/19m)	First jump (off of something)
JUL 96 (23/20m)	Two-word utterances ("Thank you...Daddy")
AUG 96 (24/21m)	Jumping with both feet off ground
SEP 96 (25/22m)	Three-word utterances ("Max Elmo hat"="Give me the Elmo Hat"),
		knows basic colors, jogs, play acting going to work.
OCT 96 (26/23m)	Four-word utterances, jumps off the couch, uses
		"there" and "too" appropriately.
NOV 96 (27/24m)	Five-word sentences (nouns, verbs, adjectives, some
		prepositions and determiners), role playing.
DEC 96 (2y,4m)	Jumping over things, took shirt/pants off, six-word
		sentences, uses "where".
JAN 97 (2y,5m)	Jumping "hurdle" style, requests information, made analogy,
		naming letters and dinosaurs, names antonyms and synonyms,
		Asks "Who's that?" often.
FEB 97 (2y, 6m)	Read first word: "BP".
MAR 97 (2y, 7m)	Language use improves drastically.  Big question is "How did
-AUG 97 (3y)	that happen?".  Rhymes well.  Vocabulary evaluated at 3y,11m
		level.  Uses "what?" when he doesn't understand.
SEP 97		Jumps down three steps at a time.  Opens doors.  Recites
-OCT 97		books and dialogue from movies.  Sings a few
		recognizable tunes (Wallace and Gromit theme, Peter's
		theme from Peter and the Wolf, Lyle the Crocodile).
		Breaks into song.  Explains sophisticated situations,
		but not perfectly.  Can answer "which of these is not
		X".
NOV 97		Walks up steps two at a time, uses bathroom on his own
-JAN 98		(needs help putting pants back on), can use computer
		mouse on his own, knows most lowercase letters and
		their sounds, can recite Hanukah prayer, inserts
		CD-ROM, presses ``play'' on VCR.
FEB 98-		3 pieces of pizza, jump two feet at a time up a step,
 APR 98		most poops on toilet, counts objects up to four, sat
		through first light opera (Iolanthe).
MAY 98-		no diapers, dresses self, played Games magazine with me,
 FEB 99		puts on shoes (velcro), listens to complete chapter books,
		can recognize and imitate some accents, 
		recognizes whistled tunes, starting to put sounds together
MAR 99-		First spontaneous pattern play (putting blue balls on
 FEB 00		blue pedestals, etc.).
MAR 00-		Reading, simple addition, writes all letters and
		numbers, helps play with Molly, spelling (sometimes so
		Molly wouldn't understand), enjoying school, wrote and
		illustrated "Mousie and Meow" for Young Authors' Week.